NEW YORK—Continuing the legal roller coaster for New York churches with few rental options, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the second time reversed a lower court's ruling allowing congregations to meet in public schools. Local churches following the ruling have said they will continue to meet at public schools until the city tells them to stop, in the hopes that new Mayor Bill de Blasio will change the city policy himself as he promised to do during his campaign. De Blasio indicated his continuing support on Thursday even though he hadn't read the ruling.

A Canadian private school wants the right to modify a curriculum that requires all religions, including Wicca and paganism, to be taught as “equally valid,” World Net Daily reports. The school says the government-mandated curriculum infringes on its religious rights.

On March 25 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a monumental religious freedom case: It will consider for the first time whether companies have religious liberty under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The two companies that will come before the high court, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, have Christian owners who don’t want to provide abortion-causing drugs under the “Affordable Care Act.” 

New rules issued by the Pentagon in January allegedly protect all service members’ religious expression, but as one U.S. Air Force Academy cadet discovered this week, those protections do not extend to Christian leaders who want to express their faith in public.

And to think it all started with peyote.

In Arizona has come a test of the motto conservative Christians like to invoke: “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed the “religious freedom bill” passed by the Republican legislature. While there is no mention in the bill of same-sex marriage, or even homosexuals, most people believe same-sex marriage and homosexuals were the targets of the proposed law.

The debate over religious liberty exploded in Arizona this week after lawmakers sent Gov. Jan Brewer a bill that would have helped businesses defend themselves against discrimination claims. Facing enormous pressure both at home and across the nation, Brewer vetoed the measure Wednesday night. Gay rights groups heaped condemnation on the law, calling it a throwback to the South’s infamous Jim Crow laws.